David Droga Quotes
Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
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My love life is not a priority.
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I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.
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Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.
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Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.
